Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

  • 83% of critics liked it
    (18 reviews)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (165 ratings)

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party has used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social… More

PG, 1 hr. 8 min.
Directed By
Jeremy Earp, Sut Jhally
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Sep 10, 2004 Wide
On DVD
Oct 5, 2004

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    The most outspoken and yet in some ways the calmest of the new documentaries opposing the Bush presidency.

  • Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

    Although the positions are by now familiar, especially for those who have seen the previously released films on the subject, there's enough solid and persuasive analysis here to give this effort a fresh urgency.

  • Megan Lehmann, New York Post

    There's really nothing new here ... and lacking the drama and humor of Fahrenheit 9/11, it is even more likely to be preaching to the converted.

  • Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

    There's nothing like facts to prosecute a case, and this documentary about the Bush administration's pre-9/11 determination to invade Iraq is nothing if not fact-based.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    Where Hijacking does its job best is in laying out the historical details of what Kwiatkowski calls the 'storyline' leading up to the Iraq invasion, a narrative fiction prepared and sold by neocons to a gullible, and scared, public.

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